There are not “two sides” in bitcoin. It’s not core vs knots. It’s not devs vs users. It’s *way* more interesting than that. The only thing you can control in Bitcoin is what software *you* run. Literally. That is all. All of the emergent governance properties stem from that. From the inability to coerce others. Don’t like core? Cool. Code your own implementation! Don’t like it? There’s a bunch of really smart people doing that kind of thing, so run one of theirs. Put it through an AI and analyze it. Learn something. But don’t expect other people to do what you want. It’s just not possible. Bitcoin is anti-collectivist by its very design, but humans have collectivism hard wired into their brains. Even the most hardcore libertarians can’t erase millions of years of evolution. They want to form tribes. They want to convince their fellow man to act for the good of the tribe. But the bitcoin protocol is brutal. It suffers no democracy, no tribes, no voting systems. It boggles the mind. It confounds us. It doesn’t act like any governance system we have ever seen, and it’s deeply non human in its nature. It makes us go insane: Why aren’t the other people seeing what I’m seeing? Are they evil? Stupid? Are they all conspiring? Did the deep state pay everyone to embed jpgs into the blockchain? All of these questions are our inability to face a governance system that is antithetical to human existence. It is the reason for Bitcoin derangement syndrome. It is the reason so many people have rage quit through the years and started their own coins, with a nice side benefit of self interested dreams of riches and cult leadership, of course. You only get to decide what software *you* run. That is all. Embrace it, and you discover an ability to predict game theoretic outcomes for Bitcoin movements. Reject this, and face Bitcoin derangement syndrome and myriad altcoins.

So they just arrested the Telegram founder and threaten him with 20 years in prison because he didn’t want to “moderate content” Freedom of speech is under attack.

What would happen if Trump had died?

Never have the fees as a % of price been so low for Bitcoin.

We are now 1% of the way to the next halving. And it feels like the 4th halving was just yesterday. We'll be at 225 per day before you even realize.

Right after a halving, is a pretty bad time to consolidate UTXOs, is it not? 🤣😂

For the past few years, I've had one rule on golf sports betting: Bet on Scottie Sheffler. That's it. You do that, you'll make $.

What if gold and silver, had a day every few years or so, when literally every single mine, suddenly was only able to find on average HALF the amount, which it used to be able to find prior to that day? How precious would those metals be today?

Can you spot the double meaning in this sentence: I know a way to lose weight, fast.

While I hate thieves, this is pretty darn funny. Just, so inventive and cleverly done. Also love the way the thief then steps toward the door while the guy is running to it. Bragging the whole time. It's funny!

I'd intended to sell some gold oz this week to pay off a bit more debt...but with gold doing what it's been doing...I've held off! Crazy how much the old metal has been moving lately.

One of these days, Bitcoin will bounce back. Eventually. If we are patient.

plebs meeting each other at the @HalvingPartyMF

Well don't forget about this.

This is the most hypocritical gaslighting post. “I had to censor and cancel these people who weren’t pro-Israel enough because I’m fighting for diversity of thought”

Bitcoin is not crypto. In a single picture.

Prediction: we are on the eve of the greatest case of "I like #Bitcoin, buy my shitcoin" that the world has ever seen. forbes.com/sites/digital-ass…

The dichotomy between these two tweets on my timeline today is almost like art. The text offers great contrast of course, but even the visuals as well. Colorful and rural vs gray and stuffy.

When someone tells you that Bitcoin mining uses more electricity than, say, Sweden, just say "well, it's worth more".